The commercial deficit involved in the scheme should be borne by the State.

This expansion of our poor law policy, for it is nothing more, aims less at the reformation and improvement of the class taken under its charge, than at the relief which would be afforded to the classes who suffered from their competition in the industrial struggle.

What it amounts to is the removal of the mass of unemployed.

The difficulties involved in such a scheme are, as Mr.Booth admits, very grave.
The following points especially deserve attention-- 1.

Since it is not conceivable that compulsion should be brought to bear in the selection and removal out of the ordinary industrial community of those weaker members whose continued struggle is considered undesirable, it is evident that the industrial colonies must be recruited out of volunteers.